Peter Diamandis

Biography

Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. He was named by Forbes magazine as one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders". He is Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight. He is also the co-author of The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives.

Peter is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, theirability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges.

In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for precious materials. He is also the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation. His mission is to open the space frontier for humanity and his personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."

Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World. He was honoured by the Greek Government who issed a 1.2 Euro stamp bearing his image. 

He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.